Thursday, March 4 – SoHo Night

Tributes to Kusama: Art-Infinity Net
CITYarts will have a representative at this public work created by artist Jessica Diamond as a tribute to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
Time: 2pm-4pm
Access: Public
Location: Thompson Street Playground, 92 Thompson Street (between Prince and Spring)
Website: www.cityarts.org

MTA Arts for Transit – Carrying On
Arts for Transit staff will be onsite to discuss Janet Zweig and Edward del Rosario’s installation, Carrying On (2004). Using the platform walls as an enormous 1,200 foot storyboard, the workis composed of nearly two hundred silhouettes of people and the many things they haul with them as they move around the city and in and out of the subway.
Time: 5pm-7pm
Access: No RSVP required
Location: Prince St. Station (Brooklyn-bound platform)
Website: www.mta.info/mta/aft

SoHo Night

SoHo Night is an evening of extended exhibition viewing and special programs by the not-for-profit visual arts institutions in SoHo.

• apexart (291 Church Street) will hold extended hours. 6pm-8pm
• Art in General (79 Walker St.) will present a film screening in conjunction with Redmond Entwistle’s exhibition, Double-bill. 6pm-8pm
• Artists Space (38 Greene St.) presents Rip it Up and Start Again, co-produced with Kunstverein München. 6pm-9pm
• CITYarts (525 Broadway, Suite 700) will hold extended hours. 6pm-9pm
• The Drawing Center (35 & 40 Wooster St) presents Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary and Spring Selections 2010. 6pm-9pm
• Harvestworks (596 Broadway) presents No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics by artist Saya Woolfalk. 6pm-9pm
• Location One (26 Greene Street) presents Yes, but... featuring Vik Muniz and work by artists-in-residence Alexandra Mota de Aguiar, Wojtek Doroszuk, Mattias Ericsson. 6pm-9pm
• The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation (526 LaGuardia Place) presents an open house of Chaim Gross's sculpture studio. 6pm-8pm
• Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, 3rd Fl) will hold extended hours. 6pm-9pm

Highlights:

• 6:30pm: Curator talk and tour of Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at The Drawing Center with exhibition Co-curator Carey Lovelace.
• 6:30pm: Special tour of Chaim Gross’s sculpture studio at The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation.
• 7pm: Special performance by Lilibeth Cuenca at Location One.

Time: 6pm-9pm
Access: Public, No RSVP required
Location: SoHo

Manhattan Graphics Center – Open House
Manhattan Graphics Center is a professional equipped fine-art printmaking studio where artists can take classes and rent workshop time. The free Open House will offer a tour of the workshop, exhibitions of work by Center members, and demonstrations of woodcut, etching, lithography, silkscreen and monotype.
Time: 6pm-9pm
Access: No RSVP required
Location: 481 Washington St.
Website: www.manhattangraphicscenter.org

Recess Activities, Inc. Presents An Evening with The Bruce High Quality University
Recess, a new art space at 41 Grand Street in SoHo, invites resident artists to use its storefront as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation. In January 2010 artists from the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s University hosted a series of classes there as a means of opening their curriculum to a wide range of audiences, inviting the public to approach their practice as it evolved. The result is an environment in which student and professor, observer and participant, are indistinguishable.
Time: 6:30pm-9pm
Access: No RSVP required
Location: 41 Grand Street
Website: www.recessart.org